[[image:t_louverture_portrait.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Portrait of Toussaint Louverture]] On '''April 7, 1803''' [[Toussaint Louverture]] died in French captivity at [[Fort de Joux]].

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[[image:t_louverture_portrait.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Portrait of Toussaint Louverture]] [[image:toussaint_memorial.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Toussaint memorial at Fort de Joux]] On '''April 7, [[1803]]''' [[Toussaint Louverture]] died in French captivity at [[Fort de Joux]]. A day later Toussaint's [http://thelouvertureproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Last_Days_Of_Toussaint_L%27Ouverture#Post-mortem_Examination_of_Toussaint_L.27Ouverture post-mortem examination] is carried out. Nine months later [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] finishes Toussaint Louverture's work and delivers the final blow against the French troops in the victorious Haitian Revolution.